_12 November ‘08 Wednesday Well this morning we are hoping that all will be finished with the coach. It was supposed to be done Friday, but just as I was digging deep into my wallet, another tech walked up to say that he had another idea as to what might be our amperage draw (they couldn’t seem to find the problem over the last two days) but it would have to wait until Monday. This gave us our weekend here which was totally filled with fun things, but it also gave us the opportunity to test the leaky slide and to test this new techs idea as well. Unfortunately Saturday morning gave us one of the answers…our slide still leaks, not nearly as bad (which I must say wasn’t a nasty leak in the first place) but it was still wet after last night’s rain. Now Monday and we’re back in the shop for one more day. The topper on the slide is off and new tape is being applied as well as a small adjustment on the slide. The electrical…well they have now definitely found what the draw is… It was found to be 2 of the 4 heating pads that sit under our holding tanks. The answer is either to take the tanks out and replace the pads or just do without. We are choosing to do without so if it ever gets to the point that the holding tanks could freeze, we are staying in the wrong place. Ok, all is done… it’s still raining but not a leak in sight and now we are without a couple of heating pads but we’re all right with that as well. Tuesday morning and still raining, we finally pulled away from Monaco Service and headed south. A few hours later and we had crossed into California and low and behold the rain started to lighten up and then come to a stop… It sure must be true, California needs rain and it’s shown by the lack of water in Lake Shasta. We were by here just a year ago and the difference now is amazing. The sloping red banks that seem to go down forever, used to be the normal lake level. It sure looks bleak for the water needs of California. Our first stop was Redding, California. Just as we approached the city limits of Redding, Louise saw a road sign telling her that there was a casino in town. Ok, you know we just had to go and after all, they have free RV parking too. Louise really enjoys her time in the casinos so I enjoy taking her (at least most of the time…). We walked over to the casino after setting up and made sure we signed up for our “promotion dollars ($10 each) and then took advantage of their $12 T-bone steak dinner. I immediately lost my $10 and went home, but as usual, Louise stayed longer and merged her $10 into $32. We were also given an additional coupon if we were to come back this morning. It was for an additional $20ea. And then, on top of that, the young lady that runs the shuttle gave us both one more coupon…this one for $10 each. We decided to make short work out of these new gifts and quickly turned our new found wealth of $60 into $132 and quickly left town. We are now sitting in our new campground beside one of the many dikes of the Sacramento River Delta.